Scope
House Resolution 196, HD1 (2026), adopted by the Hawaii House alone, requests the Hawaii State Energy Office to convene a working group to study the potential impacts of large data centers requiring five megawatts or more of instantaneous demand on Hawaii's electric utilities, ratepayers, natural resources and climate goals and to report to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the 2027 regular session; it states the working group's end as 30 June 2027. It is a single-chamber study request with the same subject as the adopted concurrent resolution HCR 206 and imposes no requirement on any data center.
- Geographic scope
- Hawaii
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Legislature
- Issuing authority
- Hawaii House of Representatives
Dates
- Adopted
- 9 April 2026
- Effective
- Not a binding measure
- Scheduled expiration
- See completion condition
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- The resolution states the working group's end as 30 June 2027; this is not an expiration of a binding rule.
- Source document
- The source page states no document date
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
Summary
On 9 April 2026 the Hawaii House adopted HR 196, HD1, a single-chamber resolution requesting the Hawaii State Energy Office to convene a working group on the impacts of large data centers and to report before the 2027 regular session. The same request was adopted by both chambers as HCR 206 on 27 April 2026. It is a study request, not a binding rule on data centers.
What this does not establish
- A single-chamber resolution requesting a study; it does not enact a statute, tax measure, permit condition or tariff.
- It duplicates the subject of the concurrent resolution HCR 206; the three resolutions are separate legislative actions and are linked, not merged.
- Whether the working group has been convened was not established.
Unresolved questions
None recorded.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- Related, not a replacement HCR 206 (2026): working group to study large data center impacts (Informational—not binding)
Sources
https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2026/bills/HR196_HD1_.HTM
- HR 196 measure status page adoption history · 9 April 2026